All Seminars
Events for 2020
JAN
09
2020
MPEL Seminar
Real-time, Measurement-based Identification of Voltage Instability Onset
Constantine (Costas) Vournas, Professor (Retired), National Technical University of Athens
JAN
09
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Derandomized Load Balancing using Random Walks
Vijay Subramanian, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
15
2020
MIPSE Seminar
Will this Thruster Get Us to Europa? Modeling Ion Engine Erosion and Quantifying Lifetime Margins and Uncertainty
Dr. Jay Polk , Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JAN
16
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
A Framework for Interactive Learning
David Kempe, Associate Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Computer Science
JAN
17
2020
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Electronics in the Brain – Literally
Prof. Arto Nurmikko, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Physics, Brown University
JAN
17
2020
Control Seminar
Steering without Taking Over: A Means for Human-Machine Control Sharing
Brent Gillespie, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
JAN
20
2020
Cultural | Student Event | Symposium
MLK Keynote Watch Party & Discussion
Angela Davis, Professor
JAN
23
2020
Cultural | Student Event
Lunar New Year Celebration
JAN
23
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Coding for Non-Stationary Scenarios and Low Capacity Channels
Hessam Mahdavifar, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
24
2020
Control Seminar
From Kinematic to Energetic Design and Control of Wearable Robots for Agile Human Locomotion
Robert Gregg, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
28
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Vehicle-to-Everything Communications
Robert Heath, Professor and Chair, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
JAN
30
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning from Multiple Biased Sources
Clay Scott, Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
JAN
31
2020
Control Seminar
Let’s Walk and Talk: Co-Design of Mobility and Communications (and Sensing) for Ubiquitous Robots
Ankur Mehta, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
FEB
05
2020
Systems Seminar – ECE
Solving Large Zero-Sum Matrix Games: Randomized and Approximate Algorithms
Shaunak D. Bopardikar, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
FEB
06
2020
Distinguished Lecture
Computing in Millimeters
David Blaauw, Kensall D. Wise Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS-ECE
FEB
07
2020
Control Seminar
Robustness in Data-Driven Control Design
Peter Seiler, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
FEB
13
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Capacity upper bounds for deletion-type channels
Mahdi Cheragchi, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
FEB
14
2020
Control Seminar
Time-Delayed Control of Single-Input Single-Output Systems for Improved Stability Margins
A. Galip Ulsoy, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
FEB
17
2020
MIDAS Seminar
How Language Makes Us Smart (Without Big Data)
Charles Yang, Director, University of Pennsylvania
FEB
21
2020
Control Seminar
Bridging the Gap Between Controls Theory and Practice
Leila Bridgeman, Assistant Professor, Duke University
FEB
24
2020
MIDAS Seminar
Is It Possible to Democratize AI for Business
Jen Stirrup, Regional Director, Microsoft
FEB
27
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELLED: Seminar by Paramveer Dhillon
FEB
27
2020
Distinguished Lecture
Henry Russel Lecture: Carbon vs. carbon dioxide: Using carbon-based (organic) electronics for a more sustainable planet
Stephen Forrest, Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor; Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
FEB
28
2020
Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Control of electromagnetic fields for energy applications
Prof. Shanhui Fan, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
MAR
10
2020
ECE Seminar
POSTPONED: Real World Perspectives: Conversations of Leadership and Diversity in Engineering
3 Amigos
MAR
11
2020
MIPSE Seminar
CANCELED: Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch
Dr. Richard Gottscho, Lam Research
MAR
12
2020
Alumni | Cultural | Distinguished Lecture | ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Enabling Hybrid Thin Films for Optoelectronics
Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts, Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University
MAR
12
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Nonconvex Optimization Meets Statistics: A Few Recent Stories
Yuxin Chen, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Department of Electrical Engineering
MAR
13
2020
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Smart Additive Manufacturing: A Modeling and Control Framework for Closing the Loop in 3D Printing
Kira Barton, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
MAR
16
2020
Distinguished Lecture | RADLAB Seminar
Low Phase Noise Signal Generation Utilising Oscillators, Resonators & Filters and Atomic Clocks
Dr. Jeremy Everard, Professor of Electronics, University of York
MAR
17
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning Low-complexity Models from the Data – Geometry, Optimization, and Applications
Qing Qu, Moore-Sloan Research Fellow, New York University
MAR
18
2020
MIPSE Seminar
CANCELED: Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter
Dr. Frank Graziani, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
MAR
19
2020
MPEL Seminar
Mining Smart Meter Data for Improving Distribution Grid Observability
Zhaoyu Wang, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
MAR
19
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Mert Gurbuzbalaban
Mert Gurbuzbaalaban, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University
MAR
20
2020
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Towards a Rigorous Framework for Optimal Selection of Basis Functions in Feedforward Tracking Control – and Beyond
Chinedum Okwudire, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Associate Chair, Integrative Systems and Design, University of Michigan
MAR
23
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Scalable Algorithms for Distributed Optimization and Learning
Cesar Uribe, Post Doctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
25
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Canceled: Scalability and Methods of Deep Learning from an Optimization Viewpoint
Kenji Kawaguchi, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
26
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
(Remote) A mean-field theory of lazy training in two-layer neural nets: entropic regularization and controlled McKean-Vlasov dynamics
Maxim Raginsky, Associate Professor, William L. Everitt Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MAR
27
2020
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Tryphon Georgiou
Tryphon Georgiou, Professor, University of California at Irvine, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
MAR
31
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning from Societal Data: Theory and Practice
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington
APR
02
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Large-Scale Optimization and Nonconvexity: From Deep Learning to Energy Markets
Navid Azizan, Ph.D. Candidate, California Institue of Technology
APR
02
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Achilleas Anastasopoulos
Achilleas Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
APR
03
2020
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Emanuele Garone
Emanuele Garone, Assistant Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Université Libre de Brux
APR
06
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Small-Data Learning in Big Cyber Physical Systems
Pei Zhang, Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
07
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Cross-Layering in Future Wireless Networks: From Compact Full-duplex Radios to City-Scale Experimentation
Tingjun Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
APR
09
2020
ECE Seminar
Going Towards 6G
Robert Heath, Cockrell Regents Endowed Chair in Engineering #7, The University of Texas at Austin
APR
09
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Communication-Efficient and Straggler-Resilient Distributed Learning
Ramtin Pedarsani, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
APR
10
2020
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Birgit Vogel-Heuser
Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Professor, Technische Universität München
APR
16
2020
MIDAS Seminar | Student Event
A Data Scientist Plays Games
Nick Berry, Data Scientist, Formerly with Microsoft, GameHouse, and Facebook
APR
16
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Aylin Yener
Aylin Yener, Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University
APR
17
2020
Control Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Bin Hu
Bin Hu, Assistant Professorr, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
APR
22
2020
MIPSE Seminar
CANCELED: Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth
Dr. Derek Schaeffer, Princeton University
APR
23
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELLED: Online Optimization and Energy
Adam Wierman, Professor and Executive Officer (Chair), California Institute of Technology, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
APR
29
2020
MIPSE Seminar
CANCELED: Journey to the Sun
Dr. Nicola Fox, NASA-Heliophysics Division
MAY
07
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Aly El Gamal
Aly El Gamal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
MAY
14
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
CANCELED: Seminar by Osman Yagan
Osman Yagan, Associate Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
JUN
03
2020
Cultural | Student Event
EECS Community Gathering
JUN
05
2020
Cultural | Student Event
EECS Community Gathering
JUN
19
2020
Cultural | Other Event | Student Event
EECS Juneteenth Celebration
JUL
08
2020
MIDAS Seminar
A Scalable Tool for Longitudinal Twitter Analysis
Al Hero & Walter Dempsey, Professor, EECS & Engineering, U-M & Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, UM, University of Michigan
JUL
15
2020
MIDAS Seminar
A Mobile/wearable Platform for Collecting Data on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in the Time of COVID
Danny Forger, Professor of Computational Medicine, Bioinformatics, & Mathematics, U-M, University of Michigan
JUL
21
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: #5
John Silberholz & Nigel Michki, Associate Professor, Technology & Operations, U-M & Doctoral student, Biophysics, U-M
JUL
28
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: #6
Sharon Glotzer, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, U-M
JUL
28
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase: Sharon Glotzer – An Open Software Approach for Reproducible Research for Materials Design
SHARON GLOTZER, Professor – Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
JUL
29
2020
MIDAS Seminar
“Is AI Racist?”
Dr. Jagadish and Other Experts, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science
AUG
04
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge Showcase
Chris Brooks, Assistant Professor of Information – School of Information, University of Michigan
AUG
31
2020
MIDAS Seminar
Beyond Algorithmic Fairness: What Social Justice Needs from Data Science
Kentaro Toyama, Professor of Community Information, Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan
SEP
03
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Stochastic Analysis and Design of Secure and Scalable Blockchain protocols
Sreeram Kannan, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Electrical & Computer Engineering
SEP
10
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Incentivizing Exploration with Selective Data Disclosure
Nicole Immorlica, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Lab – New York City
SEP
11
2020
Control Seminar
Bridging Control Theory and Machine Learning
Bin Hu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SEP
14
2020
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Reproducibility Day
SEP
16
2020
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club: Japan
Silvia Dykstra, Events Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering
SEP
18
2020
Control Seminar
Efficient Reachability for Safe Autonomous Systems: A Mixed Monotone Approach
Samuel Coogan, Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech
SEP
24
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Multi-armed Bandits with Structured and Correlated Arms
Osman Yagan, Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & CyLab
SEP
25
2020
Control Seminar
Walking Like a Robot: Improving Human Gait through Modeling and Simulation
Anne Martin, Martin W. Trethewey Early Career Professor; Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University
SEP
28
2020
MIDAS Seminar
Data Science and Politics
David Shor, SuperPAC Data Scientist, Democratic Consultant
SEP
30
2020
MIPSE Seminar
Relativistic Nanophotonics: Creating Extreme Plasma Conditions and Fields with Ultrafast Lasers
Prof. Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University
OCT
01
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Discrete choice with irrelevant alternatives: models and lower bounds on testing
Johan Ugander, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) School of Engineering
OCT
02
2020
Control Seminar
On the Geometry of Optimal Mass Transport, Where Probability, Control, and Physics Meet
Tryphon Georgiou, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine
OCT
08
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Competitive Control via Online Optimization
Adam Wierman, Professor, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the California Institute of Technology. Director of the Information Science and Technology (IST) initiative
OCT
09
2020
Control Seminar
Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
Dennice Gayme, Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
OCT
15
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Enabling Fast and Robust Federated Learning
Ramtin Pedarsani, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
OCT
16
2020
Control Seminar
Learning and Control of Linear Dynamical Systems in High-Dimensional Settings
Salar Fattahi, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
OCT
21
2020
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club: Egypt
Omar Abdelatty, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
OCT
21
2020
MIPSE Seminar
Bringing Cosmic Shock Waves Down to Earth
Dr. Derek Schaeffer, Princeton University
OCT
22
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Not Enough Measurements, Too Many Measurements
Michael McCann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), Michigan State University
OCT
23
2020
Cultural | Student Event
Screening of “A Single Man”
OCT
23
2020
Control Seminar
Bridging the Cap between Optimal and Real-Time Safe Control: Making Autonomous Vehicles a Reality
Christos G. Cassandras, Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering; Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, Boston University
OCT
27
2020
Cultural | Student Event
Social Identity 101
OCT
29
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Heavy-tail Phenomenon in SGD
Mert Gürbüzbalaban, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers Business School.
OCT
30
2020
Control Seminar
Enabling Human-Aware Automation: A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Human Cognition
Neera Jain, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
NOV
04
2020
MIPSE Seminar
Quantum Hydrodynamics and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Dr. Frank Graziani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
NOV
05
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
FAMILY: Foundations and Applications of Machine Intelligence Lab for societY
Aly El Gamal, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
NOV
06
2020
Control Seminar
Planning, Control, and Test of Connected Automated Vehicles
Shaobing Xu, Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
NOV
10
2020
MIDAS Seminar
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
With Prof. David Fouhey and Prof. Jason Corso
NOV
11
2020
MIDAS Seminar
U-M Data Science Annual Symposium 2020
With Prof. David Fouhey and Prof. Jason Corso
NOV
12
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Adaptive Discretization For Reinforcement Learning
Christina Lee Yu, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE), Cornell University
NOV
13
2020
Other Seminar
Ultrafast Dynamics in Light-Molecule Strongly Coupled Systems
Dr. Bin Liu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, City University of New York
NOV
13
2020
Control Seminar
Exergy-wise Control of Energy Systems: A Promising Paradigm to Enable Maximum Energy Conversion Efficiency in Systems
Mahdi Shahbakhti, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
NOV
18
2020
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club: Venezuela
Fanny Pinto Delgado, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
NOV
18
2020
MIPSE Seminar
Lasers, Z Pinches, and Nuclear Weapons: The Importance of Plasma Physics to the NNSA
Dr. Sarah Nelson, National Nuclear Security Administration
NOV
19
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Learning via early stopping and untrained neural nets
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Assistant Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
NOV
23
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Deep Generative models and Inverse Problems
Alexandros Dimakis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
NOV
29
2020
Alumni | Other Seminar | Student Event
ECE Apparel Sale
DEC
02
2020
MIPSE Seminar
Exploring Transformative Startup Solutions for Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas
Prof. Stephanie Diem, University of Wisconsin-Madison
DEC
03
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Approximate planning and learning in partially observed systems
Aditya Mahajan, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
DEC
10
2020
Communications and Signal Processing Seminar
Connections between Online Learning and Differential Privacy
Ambuj Tewari, Associate Professor , LSA Statistics, EECS (by courtesy), University of Michigan
DEC
11
2020
Cultural | ECE Culture Club | Student Event
ECE Culture Club: India
Ady Hambarde, ECE PhD Student